[Roark66]

Exactly. AI lets me focus on the most interesting part of programming. Coming up with how I want to solve the problem, not wasting time searching docs to find out if a particular function will do what I want and many other tasks I didn't even know were not my favourite before.

[happytoexplain]

For me, a particular kind of certainty is a prerequisite for joyful programming. I too get the most out of the solutioning, not the annoying details that need to be clarified by documentation, but if I don't personally clarify those details, I no longer have a certain kind of baseline confidence in my program; a feeling of what parts are more likely to be the source of bugs and what parts aren't; a feeling of how much I grok each part of my own program. Without that, personally speaking, the joy is drained from the solutioning thereafter.

[nunez]

That’s a big part of programming though, IMO. Always has been.